Consider the following light weight comparison of various idioms:

use strict;
use warnings;

# Declare
my ($website_1, $website_2, $website_3);
my @sites;
my %siteHash;

# Populate vars
$website_1 = 'www.site1.com';
$website_2 = 'www.site2.com';
$website_3 = 'www.site3.com';

# Populate array
push @sites, "www.site$_.com" for 1 .. 3;

# Populate hash
$siteHash{"website_$_"} = "www.site$_.com" for 1 .. 3;

# use individual sites
print "Site 1 is $website_1\n";
print "Site 1 is $sites[0]\n";
print "Site 1 is $siteHash{website_1}\n\n";

# use site collections
print "Site $_\n" for ($website_1, $website_2, $website_3);
print "\n";
print "Site $_ is $sites[$_-1]\n" for 1 .. 3;
print "\n";
print "Site $_ is $siteHash{$_}\n" for sort keys %siteHash;

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Prints:

Site 1 is www.site1.com
Site 1 is www.site1.com
Site 1 is www.site1.com

Site www.site1.com
Site www.site2.com
Site www.site3.com

Site 1 is www.site1.com
Site 2 is www.site2.com
Site 3 is www.site3.com

Site website_1 is www.site1.com
Site website_2 is www.site2.com
Site website_3 is www.site3.com

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and note that individual variables don't really allow management as a collection (your problem) as both hashes and arrays do. Arrays don't give any help when accessing individual elements, but are suscinct. Hashes allow "symbolic" access to individual elements and management as a collection, but are a little more cumbersom.

You will perhaps have noticed that arrays and hashes of references have been omitted. If you are comfortable with those you probably wouldn't be asking the question. :)

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: looping through variables by GrandFather
in thread looping through variables by keiusui

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